note 76182 added to function.dom-domelement-construct

I'm just starting to get into the DOM methods and finding it pretty challenging. One of the obstacles is that once you've got a node, there doesn't seem to be any way to see what's inside it (at least I haven't been able to find it). You'd expect (I did) print_r to show you the properties (attributes) of the node, but all it tells you is the object type. So I wrote this little function to mimic the way I think print_r should work: <?php function nodeDump($node) { $output = print_r($node, TRUE); $output = str_replace(")\n", '', $output); $output .= ' ' . '[tagName] => ' . $node->tagName . " \n"; $numOfAttribs = $node->attributes->length; for ($i = 0; $i < $numOfAttribs; $i++) { $output .= ' [' . $node->attributes->item($i)->nodeName . '] => ' . $node->attributes->item($i)->nodeValue . " \n"; } $output .= ' [nodeValue] => ' . $node->nodeValue; $output .= ')'; return $output; } ?> OK - to really work like print_r it would also go through all the childNodes recursively, but it's a start. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 74.227.168.6 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domelement-construct.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/76182 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76182/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76182/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76182/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76182/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76182/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76182/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76182 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/76182 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php